The software architecture discussed and carefully created is often not entirely followed in the implementation. In this session, we'll look at an easy-to-use, automated solution to improve architecture conformance. This solution has been successfully applied in a mid-size organization for the past six years. It uses free open-source tools and helps raise architecture knowledge across the development team. Through examples and guided exercises, you'll learn the basics of a free open source static analysis tool for creating custom checks in Java for architecture conformance. We'll also discuss strategies for how to enforce the architecture continuously by integrating the custom checks to your CI infrastructure and how to make this setup effective. In this session you'll do some basic coding. To execute the activities, bring your laptop loaded with JDK 1.7+ and Apache maven 3+.
